shocking video of allegedly or cronies emerges appearing to show syrian rebels executing government troops. america's record military budget is off topic as the presidential candidates resume campaigning in the aftermath of superstorm sandy. and those who know why it failed to get their calls and to copyright in the wake of their stunt as a bit to make a big box from their brand is thrown out. hello and welcome to our tea this friday lot from all scout six o'clock here on karen tara well evidence of brutality by syria's rebel fighters has been branded shocking

by human rights organizations and the u.n. says the killings of syrian soldiers if confirmed constituted a nother war crime footage appears to show the summary execution of twenty eight syrian troops in the north a video can't be independently verified but is seemingly of rebels beating and kicking the soldiers on the plane were wounded before shooting. it happened after fighters overran army checkpoints between damascus and aleppo all the united states plans to get greater influence for frontline militants china is calling for a face cease fire and a gradual power transition in syria live now. from hong kong city university so now they were ambles are getting some powerful backing from the u.s. will we see even more violence. it is likely so all because you appears to be american government is indicating that you will support dolls' groups who have

been proven more effect in fighting the pro-government forces alternatively the united states and the western countries should emphasize that they will support groups which are ready to negotiate among themselves the form of broad coalition that they have a clear cut terms for negotiations with the certainly jeanne as well as to demonstrate. their floor appeal to deceive community through the syrian society so they're able to wind down with very few actions to be held subsequently these indications are necessary to bring down the last four or five but if the emphasis is on more victories on our battle proven record then you certainly expect more barnum's the rebels and says they are countering the brutality of the assad

government what's your assessment of the rebels tactics. well the rebels are certainly against. doubt about it but we want from a human you care in point of view night to see that he. also emphasized. communications and coordination among themselves it was set curtain for negotiation with the us every game and above all else try to engage in nonviolent campaigns against the routine whenever and wherever it's possible and we would like them to show care for the community and asked me do you. see. the damage just done to the syrian community now on thursday time called for a phased in seems fine syria how do you think that might succeed where similar initiatives have so far failed. well into difficulties are remain in

tremendous because the western countries and disperse would be that united states are not interested in supporting. this kind of football so from time to know china has made this offer probably deal with the fact that unite us space is shifting its support among various rebel forces and it would like to demonstrate that the united states has failed to identify is support for broad spectrum of rebel groups and probably both the united states has picked up on horses and so on and of course that united china would also like to sort of show support for the united nations the envoy. in me in his renewed efforts to to try to secure negotiations and

being the fighting in syria mr chang very briefly now why do you think the u.s. and its allies are not focusing on peaceful efforts instead pushing those fighting against assad to the forefront of a revamped opposition probably for strategic reasons reasons the united of space would know it could demonstrate its heart of its support for the rest will fall soon as the imposition of the american more will in the middle of years and possibly a pro-american rejean in syria you will be able to further exit of pressure on iran joining our team in law professor joseph chang from hong kong city university thank you. as america's eastern seaboard works to get life back to normal after superstorm sandy so both barack obama and mitt romney resume electioneering in the final days before the vote the damage done by the deadly storm is put at about

fifty billion dollars but neither candidate is ready to dip into the massive military budget to help pay for it or not looks at the cost of such policies our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined china russia france you know united kingdom you name it america has a responsibility and the privilege of helping defend freedom we've got to strengthen our military long term i will not cut a military budget in a post nine eleven america the pentagon's budget has grown more than forty percent averaging half a trillion dollars per year critics say a new party or presidents in the white house won't change the policies firmly cemented in washington yalla he said both of these men are very much continuations of the military industrial complex is domination of our political system in our democracy so when they keep talking about how they're going to supply jobs

increasingly that's where the jobs come from. both foreign interventions and also this giant so-called homeland security department price of defending the homeland critics say continues to come at a grave cost to civil liberties this war on terror you know lacks lead that we discussed before the end of the day now you have north carolina police you know cracking down on protesters now you have this massive empire brought in order to sustain their. you need to have peace. to make sure that the war came rages are earlier this year the former cia director applauded president obama for closely following the controversial policies of his part assessor and despite a campaign that was based upon a very powerful promise of transparency president obama and again in my view quite correctly. has used the state secrets argument in

a variety of courts as much as president bush more than six and a half thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed fighting america's post nine eleven wars and nearly fifty thousand have been wounded in action are reported quarter million americans who have fought in iraq or afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental health injuries from combat service even as america's wars wind down the suicide rate among troops has surged to a thirty year high according to the pentagon this year's total may reach as many as one suicide per day it's not just what happens in war and what the deaths and injuries or happens or. better is coming home you know to two broken communities and families with. moms and all this in terms of. is it something that he wants you know do we want as a society where are important members of our communities you know coming

coming home or withdraw. and that's the reality of war in the two thousand and twelve fiscal year payers funded a u.s. defense budget of five hundred forty four billion dollars it's estimated that some could provide two million military veterans with free medical care for thirty five years talking about national defense has been almost sacrosanct to you know sort of like the thanks department one something. to question that is to question. something that is unquestionable and that has meant that the largest part of the u.s. government spending has been beyond analysis beyond public scrutiny in four days americans will elect a leader for the next four years regardless of who wins the legacy of war cemented under the past two u.s. presidents indicate that the roots of the largest defense budget will continue

ballooning this causing many to ask if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or he wrote stability of forty three aren't enough or not our team obama and romney have laid in three tellers views on cash for the military on how to maintain the armed forces but some observers say this money would be better spent elsewhere there's no more important issue in america today and how much we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go most americans know that this is wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this is sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in all these onus of wars over these last several years is going to

be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union in their own this is very wars that happened to you know it happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt. and in wars on slashing military spending aren't calls you'll hear from the democrat or republican campaigns but there are presidential candidates making those calls they're the third party candidates who are shunned by the mainstream but are getting a voice on our team the final round of law debates is here on monday. under national rights and international law we should not iraq we need to cut the budget and bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan. the

persecution of what's. left. british lawmakers who voted against giving. a leadership tongue lashing free warned they threatened the country's isolation within the e.u. that's coming up. also greece goes gunning for journalists who know too much as a reporter who says he's gunned down on the deficit gets arrested details just ahead. what's the difference between a samurai sword and

a blind guys walking stick well known if you're one of the cops in northern england an elderly blind architect with taser in the back because his cane looks like a sword that was used in a nearby crime honest mistake because swords are often tubular and use this walking sticks more and more we hear stories like this like the handcuffed youth who is shot in the back to death or the unarmed guy in a wheelchair who got blown away by the boys in blue i understand that being in the police is rough everyone lies to you and any given day you could be shot dead so i get it when after a long police chase someone just snaps and in all honesty fire when the police might do the same thing but it takes a certain kind of person who enjoys abusing their uniform to make the helpless suffer you can't tolerate sadists or those with napoleon complexes in the police and you know what they aren't that hard to spot in the shower because if you like

to tase the elderly or shoot wheelchair bound people then you probably don't have much of a certain something but that's just my opinion. will two parties keep us politics a woman will. st. louis will new voices disrupt the power of power in. the us is america changes try. this election close monday nov fifth on r t. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.

welcome back you're watching our team live from moscow britain's deputy prime minister as warning rebel lawmakers they can leave britain isolated within the e.u. conservative m.p.'s who are in the governing coalition sided with the opposition in defining prime minister david cameron by voting for cuts to the money britain hands over to brussels every year your m.p. paul not all says britain should vote on whether to stay in the e.u. . currency blocks me relies. on britain actually i was of the states which is in the currency we pay to the tune of around fifty million pounds a day just to be members of our club doesn't take into account the mega amounts of money the street tens of billions it costs us to comply with the e.u. directives and regulations of its bed and some of the british people it's something

we know happy about it's something which we want a referendum on if you look at recent opinion polls eighty percent of people want a referendum around sixty percent of people actually want to leave the european union altogether so the people are certainly moving away the political class starts a new good debate the problem that you've got is that austerity doesn't exist in the european union and might exist in the member countries where we're asking to cut back on almost everything we have realised that if he's out the money doesn't. matter they spend more and more every single year the budget goes or a member states including states such as greece and portugal and ireland wouldn't serious trouble will be asked to put their hands in their pockets and give more to brussels it's wrong seventeen years it is now since the accounts of concerns of look if the european union was a company then the directors and the chief executive would all be in jail but it's not it's corrupt and that's another reason why the british people want that referendum and want to leave. israel could learn the hard way that friends aren't always there when you need the most it's been warned that if it attacks are wrong

don't expect the world's biggest military machine to come running to help as we report online. that israel admits the notorious assassination of one of the also arafat's deputies with a rare declassified insight into the raid in one nine hundred eighty eight. the jailed punk band pussy riot sometimes landed them in global headlines but now their potential to cash in on that fame solved battle commence over copyright the sick often also has the details pussy riot the members of the band themselves may be toiling away in hard labor as a result of their. protest stunts behind me at the price they were cathedral but that hasn't stopped some people from trying to cash in on the pussy riot brand shockingly enough that the wife of one of the pussy riot attorneys has applied for a permit to essentially gain ownership of the brand rights in order to put out t. shirts and other various items this application has been rejected today we just

learned that information so that's not going to happen but that hasn't stopped people from expressing outrage over the commercialization of this situation the band members themselves had said that this is supposed to be a political protest a nonprofit movement they're not happy with the fact that this is turning into a profit venture we've even also heard reports of there's a thirty thousand pound contract to put of full feature movie about pussy riot into works now the band has come under international attention over there are stunned at the cathedral there was a high profile trial here in russia where they were accused of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and as a result they got sentenced to labor in. a work camp one of the members was released october today actually prime minister dmitry medvedev spoke out about this issue and said that while he person. doesn't necessarily agree with their tactics and thinks that they have served their time and it's time for them to end the

sentences for the remaining two members now ask for the commercialization of. a lot of high profile celebrities. to the pussy riot because madonna apparently is selling t. shirts in support of the ride for one thousand bucks a pop unclear where those profits are going and we've also actually seen the. turn into the punch line a comedy show called south park costs in the us episode was essentially making fun of people who rallied towards various causes without actually understanding what those causes are all about and in it jesus christ came down and yelled at a bunch of the characters for wearing various protest bracelets saying that people shouldn't be expressing their political opinions bracelets but instead on t. shirts that he revealed his jesus christ robes to show. the people who brought greece to its knees should be held to account leaders but one journalist who trying to do just remains under arrest right now spiros a cut out stuff it is was swept into custody straight after appearing on t.v.

saying he had proof that the deficit data that led to greece's bailout was fabricated another journalist was tried for publishing a list of a legit top tax evaders but he was quickly acquitted in an apparent blow to the government investigative journalist gavin mcfayden says whistleblowers who strive to reveal the truth are being persecuted by governments around the world. i'm very concerned about seeing a great journalist arrested it's a disgrace and much has to be done by our own international organization to protect him and to protect others like him we have problems also in serbia and bosnia herzegovina many places where journalists are at risk against organized crime in italy a reporter is at risk a newspaper simply won't publish it so we have a problem of the fear and during the iraq war here one journalist one on the b.b.c. radio early in the morning a man named. and he said a few things about what actually happened which we know now to be entirely true and

he his career was destroyed the b.b.c. board of governors had to resign the director general of the b.b.c. left the b.b.c. and that's why capping him somewhere american country but it's murky and that's the degree of pressure there is a journalist not to say things the way they really know them to be journalists are risk politically all the time and it's our job to support the more of the world's news this hour an activist in bahrain has been sentenced to six months jail for insulting me gulf nations king on twitter three other people are awaiting verdict on similar charges next great brain and public a test on tuesday resulting in clashes and harsh criticism from the un and the us the island's shot muslim majority in the greater rights and freedom center. have been rallies in cities across the wrong with thousands chanting anti-american british and us really slogans mark anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis one revolutionary student stormed to the american embassy in teheran

and helped fifty two staff that incident severed relations between iran and the us which have never recovered sets. for chinese patrol ship have entered disputed waters around an archipelago claimed by both beijing and japan the vessels have sailed through the area for the fourteenth straight day ignoring constant warnings from tokyo a small chain of uninhabited isles are said to hold fast reserves of natural resources the territorial fallout has previously sparked mass protests in both china and japan. germany is trying hard to ditch its nuclear energy but the result is that electricity prices in the manufacturing powerhouse are getting shocking as peter oliver reports the other staying is that the country is having to be decidedly on green to feel its future. it was a resoundingly no to new clear from the german chancellor the animal abandoned nuclear power completely step by step until the end of twenty twenty two as

a country with think that we can become pioneers on the way to create an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is the security concerns are very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin reduction of nuclear energy in germany potomac energy accounted for just under eighteen percent of german electricity in two thousand and eleven can renewable take up that slack government figures show that for every wind farm bill to generate three thousand megawatts the amount needed to power three million homes the only expected to deliver one hundred megawatts to the national grid in reality though over the last ten years they've only been getting around half of that slightly over sixteen percent the original three thousand which is force germany back into the arms of fossil fuel with

nuclear power taken off the table by angle of merkel germany is building a new fleet of coal fired power stations this one may it's a cologne with its doors an ogress of this year and it's up to these new power stations to provide germany with the electricity it's crying out for electricity prices are key for the international competitiveness of the non-ferrous metals industry if the electricity price increases by once and total cost are increasing by one hundred eighty millions per year industry is already feeling the pinch the steel workers in north rhine-westphalia went on strike to try and save their mill from closure it didn't work they may not be the only ones germany's importing more and more electricity from abroad which will mean higher prices some plants have closed in germany. threaten to close. the companies are thinking to really create new investments to countries abroad germany's neighbors don't share berlin

safety concerns over nuclear power france uses atomic energy to generate the vast majority of its electricity whereas to the east poland is set to invest over fourteen and a half billion euros in the construction of eight new nuclear power plants one of them around one hundred kilometers from the german city of dresden peter all over r.t. germany business or politics mitt romney's son has visited the country which his father thinks is america's number one geopolitical fall later our business team looks at whether the investment seeking trip will have any implications for the republican candidates presidential campaign that's six thirty and eight thirty pm g.m.t. here on r.t. . from the fate of some muslims in the united states to the climate change merry go round breaking.

you can tell an ordinary russian and a siberian appalled in the blink of an. anthropologist in those days siberians were different clothes eight different food. different animals. but what about now my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian post. so i decided to. a small town just outside. many these humble dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia to put them in soup with cabbage and making sure you can have many as

a starter main dish. although it would draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate. when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by air transport in the summer months and winter. it's inhabited by siberia. a large muslim thank you to minority that migrated to before the russians. and this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of tourism brochures but distinctive

enough to show that the old d.c. is so blue still that it was like a new era. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donor night concludes the longest and while this campaign in our history colors of eleven world that. magically before our eyes that's something we're going. on with twists and turns in the hallmarks of this campaign and what you like what we're going to do the group members are going to be like that until.

it's gone guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set i want to talk about a case of two marijuana growers they were caught on secret surveillance cameras placed by the police on the suspects private property in wisconsin now the two men are facing life in prison and millions of dollars in fines for manufacturing and distribution of marijuana charges now i don't want to get into talking about the drug war that's a mess in itself but i will mention that not all of the drug war is going to norma's failure disastrous ways of our tax dollars at an ever expanding prison industrial complex but it has begun to condition american to a life under surveillance just on monday a federal judge ruled that under the right circumstances surveillance cameras can be placed on private property without a warrant we in this country have moved in a surveillance state or more accurately the surveillance state has moved into this country where right.